Daily Scripture Analysis

Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Third Sunday – Year A – Lent   Readings: Exo 17:3-7; Rom 5:1-2, 5-8; Jn 4:5-42 (4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42). 1/ Reading I: RSV Exodus 17:3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5 And the LORD said to Moses, … Read more

Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Saturday – Second Week – Lent   Readings: Mic 7:14-15, 18-20; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32. 1/ First Reading: NAB Micah 7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, That dwells apart in a woodland, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old; 15 as in the days when you came from the land of Egypt, show us wonderful signs. 16 The nations shall behold and be put to shame, in spite of all their strength; they … Read more

Please press the highlighted to listen to the homily or download Friday – Second Week – Lent   Readings: Gen 37:3-4, 12-13ª, 17b-28; Mt 21:33-43, 45-46. 1/ First Reading: NAB Genesis 37:3 Israel loved Joseph best of all his sons, for he was the child of his old age; and he had made him a long tunic. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him best of all his sons, they hated him so much that they would not even greet him. 12 One day, when his brothers had gone to pasture their father’s flocks at Shechem, 13 … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Thursday – Second Week – Lent   Readings: Jer 17:5-10; Lk 16:19-31. 1/ First Reading: NAB Jeremiah 17:5 Thus says the LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in human beings, who seeks his strength in flesh, whose heart turns away from the LORD. 6 He is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season, but stands in a lava waste, a salt and empty earth. 7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose hope is the LORD. 8 He is … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Wednesday – Second Week – Lent Readings: Jer 18:18-20; Mt 20:17-28. 1/ First Reading: NAB Jeremiah 18:18 “Come,” they said, “let us contrive a plot against Jeremiah. It will not mean the loss of instruction from the priests, nor of counsel from the wise, nor of messages from the prophets. And so, let us destroy him by his own tongue; let us carefully note his every word.” 19 Heed me, O Lord, and listen to what my adversaries say. 20 Must good be repaid with evil that they should … Read more

Please press the hightlighted to listen to the homily or download Tuesday – Second Week – Lent Readings: Isa 1:10, 16-20; Mt 23:1-12 Reading 1 (Isa 1:10, 16-20) Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before my eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow. Come now, let us set things right, says the LORD: Though your sins be like scarlet, they may become white as … Read more